Description: A lament on the death of Ockeghem, which, curiously, Susato published more than 50 years after Ockeghem's death. A belated parallel work to Josquin's Nymphes des bois, therefore. However, it does not incorporate any funereal cantus firmus. Its attribution to Lupi has been disputed, one suggestion being that it was composed by Lupus Hellinck] (1493/4-1541).

Threnody on the death of Johannes Ockeghem, prince of musicians.
Has that once noble voice,
then, fallen silent?
The golden voice of Ockeghem?
Is the glory of music now dead?
Apollo, speak, react, tell forth on the lyre sad funeral songs.
You likewise, Calliope,
dressed in mourning weeds with your sisters,
shed your devout tears.
Mourn, all of you whom
your zeal for sweet music transports,
and bear the hero [on your shoulders] with your praises:
the priest of Apollo's art,
that great phoenix, is dead.

What have you done, O hateful death?
The golden voice of Ockeghem is mute,
which used to echo through the sacred vaults.
It soothed the ears and the inward breast
of those in heaven and on earth alike.
What have you done, O hateful death?
It was already enough that you indiscriminately carry off
things that are the concern of mortal men;
[but] music is a thing divine:
why do you violate the gods?